Microprocessor Systems Design I

Credits: 3

Contact Hours: 3 hours of lecture

Instructor: Seung Woo Son

Textbook:

• No required textbook

Other supplemental materials: All supplemental materials can be found on the UMass Lowell Blackboard portal (https://www.uml.edu/blackboard/). These materials include lecture slides, handouts, recordings, assignments, quizzes, and other documentation.

Course Catalog Description:

This course provides an introduction to microprocessors. It uses assembly language to develop a foundation on the hardware, which executes a program. Memory and I/O interface design and programming. Study of microprocessor and its basic support components, including CPU architecture, memory interfaces and management, coprocessor interfaces, bus concepts, serial I/O devices, and interrupt control devices. Laboratories are directly related to microprocessor functions and their interfaces.

Prerequisites: EECE.2160 (ECE Application Programming), EECE.2650 (Logic Design)

Grading: Homework/Lab assignments (55%), 2 Exams (Midterm: 20%, Final: 25%)

Required or elective? This course is required for Computer Engineering majors while Electrical Engineers may use it as a technical elective.

Course Outcomes:

By the end of this course, you should understand and/or be able to use all the following: 

1. Microprocessor Software Architecture: Data formats, types, and alignment. Memory addressing and organization. Stack operation. 
2. Microprocessor Instructions: Instruction formats and types: data transfer, arithmetic, logical, shift/rotate, conditional execution, program control, functions. 
3. Assembly Language Programming: Ability to write, modify, and debug programs written in assembly language. Translation of high-level code to assembly language. Programs that integrate assembly and high-level code. 
4. Microprocessor Interfacing: Memory and I/O interfacing. Bus cycles. 
5. Interrupt Processing: Hardware and software interrupt. 
6. Microcontroller-based Systems: Microcontroller architecture and instruction set. Microcontroller programming using both assembly language and high-level code. Design and debug microcontroller-based circuits. 

Course Topics

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